mike gillis News

Vancouver -
This rumor has been around for a month, but it's now a rumor closer to fruition. Jim Benning, currently an assistant GM with the Boston Bruins, may be named this week as the new GM for the Vancouver Canucks.

Mike Gillis has been fired, Trevor Linden has been hired, and the Vancouver Canucks are playing out the string. The talk shows, media, fans, even the players, the entire Canuck Nation, is speculating on the future and there's been lots of doom and gloom.

The much-ballyhooed talk between Canucks GM Mike Gillis and the team's number one goalie, Roberto Luongo, has finally taken place. Gillis flew down to Florida last week, as he said he would, and the little he's divulged since returning bodes well.

Vancouver Canucks GM Mike Gillis can talk to reporters until the new CBA is done in a decade, endlessly telling them that he's happy having two great goalies and it's all working out fine, thank-you. But if he doesn't trade one, he will hurt his team.

Former NHLer Gary Roberts took a big shot at Vancouver Canucks GM Mike Gillis over the weekend, calling Gillis a "moron." His remarks come following Gillis having essentially implied that Cody Hodgson, who he traded to Buffalo, was high maintenance.